Power Through Testimony
Book • 2017
Power through Testimony brings together multidisciplinary perspectives on how survivor testimony from residential schools shapes public memory, policy, and reconciliation in Canada.
The volume investigates the political and ethical dimensions of bearing witness, including legal testimonies, public hearings, and artistic representations.
Contributors consider how testimony can enable forms of redress while also entangling survivors in bureaucratic and moral obligations.
The book situates these dynamics within broader decolonial and transitional justice frameworks, highlighting contested meanings of repair and recognition.
It is a significant contribution to Indigenous studies, memory studies, and reconciliation scholarship.
The volume investigates the political and ethical dimensions of bearing witness, including legal testimonies, public hearings, and artistic representations.
Contributors consider how testimony can enable forms of redress while also entangling survivors in bureaucratic and moral obligations.
The book situates these dynamics within broader decolonial and transitional justice frameworks, highlighting contested meanings of repair and recognition.
It is a significant contribution to Indigenous studies, memory studies, and reconciliation scholarship.
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